Impact of an active video game on healthy children's physical activity

Pediatrics

Volumn 129, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Baranowski, Tom ^a   Abdelsamad, Dina ^a   Baranowski, Janice ^a   O'Connor, Teresia Margareta ^a   Thompson, Debbe ^a   Barnett, Anthony ^b   Cerin, Ester ^b   Chen, Tzu An ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Exergames; Wii

Indexed keywords

ACCELEROMETRY; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RUNNING; SAFETY; SCHOOL CHILD; SCORING SYSTEM; SITTING; VIDEO GAME; VIDEOTAPE;

EID: 84863230642     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 10984275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2011-2050     Document Type: Article

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